Practice, practice and practice

are the best ways to improve your own art.

I’ve been doing a bit of sketching and study lately but haven’t actually completed any art but i guess atleast I’m still practicing at getting better. Art is hard sometimes because I feel like I have to be in a certain mood to do it, especially painting. Anyways here are some sketches and stuff I’ve been working on lately.

First one is lyrics from Perfume’s Dream Fighter, I was happy with it until I printed it out. I think if I created my own text for these they would come out a bit better. The second one is a motivational I made for my twin sister of a quote from The Alchemist. There is so many great quotes to choose from, from that book. Such a great book with a powerful message or messages.

First image is a study of hands that I did so I could work out the best pose for an artwork that I am creating. It will be a series of scenes from a dream I had a long time ago which I have never forgotten. It had a pretty inspiring message which I sometimes forget. In the dream I am drowning and I can’t reach the top of the water, like something is pulling me down. My hand starts becoming pixellated and then starts disappearing until someone reaches into the water and pulls me out. The hand that pulled me out was strong and somehow I am completely dry but the person who saved me is nowhere to be seen. I’m on an island and there is a cliff with a person standing at the edge. The person is beautiful, strong, confident and happy. I walk towards her but I suddenly get lifted off the ground by the wind, then I become the wind flowing closer to her and around her to see her face.

I’m way too embarressed to write the rest, sorry folks. :S

Plasma re-design

Currently in the progress of re-designing my character Plasma. I want her to really stand out as a unique character and I want her outfit/costume to be very intricate and something that anyone would consider as a great design. I’ve never been very good at designing so this is a chance for me to really step up and create something I can be proud of and not look back on later and think “I could have done better”.
My tablet is currently on the fritz again, so when I get it working properly again I will be inking and coloring my newest sketch of Plasma.

Progress shots

A different color a day, a nail art challenge!

Okay for some reason I decided I would do a different color or design on my nails for everyday of this week, which turned out a lot harder than you would think. I think I challenged myself to this because I wanted to see if I could do it and not be lazy and quit for one day. I usually quit a lot of things so I guess I wanted to prove to myself I could complete something. I almost quit when I got to friday but I received encouragement to go the extra two days. My hands got extremely dry towards the end of the week due to work and the nail polish remover I suspect. Also not putting enough cream on my hands, so some of the photos look a bit horrible. Eeek!

Monday

Tried the new Maybelline mini colorama nail polishes. So far I have only bought 5 of them, cause they were the colors that stood out to me and well because of my budget. I think they were about 5 dollars each, which isn’t too bad. From left to right the first is no.110 Urban Coral, no.9 Icing sugar, No. 95 green park, no. 96 Party blue and no. 100 Urban Lemon. They are really good to use but need a couple of coats for an opaque effect.

Nail polish used here is no. 95 Green Park

Tuesday

Tried colors no.110 Urban coral and no.9 Icing sugar to make a jelly bean look. I think it’s kinda cute, my nails look pretty terrible at this point though.

Wednesday

I used all of the colors here to make the sailor scouts! Venus is more orange but lets use our imaginations here. I enjoyed wearing these colors because they are bright and they lifted my spirits a bit.

Thursday

My sister suggested I do pink with white lace today as I was going to be wedding dress shopping in the arvo. I really enjoy making white lace on my nails because it makes a french tip kinda look. Also makes me feel like my nails are longer for some reason. Colors used here are Sally Hensen’s Xtreme wear no.83 First blush and no.21 White on. Original white lace design by cutepolish, who you can find on youtube.

Friday

My fingers were really dry at this point and I almost gave up painting my nails because I had waited for them to dry for 2 hours and then ruined them making dinner. So when I finally started again I was royally sick of painting them and waiting for them to dry. Because I really like the whole splash of color of the ends I tried to make a candy themed design. Not sure it was achieved but I enjoyed the colors anyways. Used the previous Sally Hensen colors mentioned and a Revlon Top Speed no.220 Bubble.

Saturday

Another suggestion from my sister, galaxy nails or Nebula Nails! I thought this one might be hard but it turned out being lots of fun and also it dries quite fast so no sitting around trying not to touch anything. Basically for this design you can choose whatever colors you like and dab them on with a sponge after you have done a base coat of black or dark blue or whatever color for whatever color scheme you would like to create. I used a blue glitter nail polish by NYC, then a lighter blue nail polish dabbed on top. Then a little bit of yellow and red dabbed here and there. I used a very small dotting tool for the stars, for those who don’t have dotting tools a tooth pick can also be used. Also a clear glitter nail polish can be put on top for more a starry effect but I didn’t have any. So many tutorials can be found for this particular design, just search on youtube. I’m not a professional, I just do this for fun so it is a little messy around the edges.

Sunday

This day was hard because I really wanted to leave the galaxy nails on cause I liked them so much, also it took ages to wipe off. Anyways I decided to do rainbow/cloud nails today because it’s sunday and it is a more wearable design to wear to work on a monday. Tutorials for this design can be found on youtube also.

 

So, that is my week in nails, I’m pretty proud of myself for completing it. People may think “it’s only painting your nails each day” but I didn’t have much time on my hands and most of these were painted really late at night before bed. So I’m pretty happy with myself :D.

To anyone who is reading this who likes painting nails and is up for a challenge, try this 7 day challenge and see if you can do something different on your nails each day for a week. I’d love to see what people can do, so leave a link to your blog in the comments below. 🙂 Good Luck everyone!

Meet Plasma

Hi, welcome to my blog.

I will be posting images of my completed art and sketches, concepts and designs. It’s more of a way to keep myself motivated in completing art and ideas I have been thinking about. I’ll also be posting random stuff so not all posts will be about art.

Firstly I want to introduce a character I developed for one of my previous art assignments. The idea was to just create the character but once you start designing the character, it’s hard to stop there. I created her world, background story, the town she lives in, the house she lives in, a story plot and even her pet. Her name is Plasma and I’ll will be letting everyone get to know her and her world bit by bit.